diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 1730ec43d..6335e9fc1 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+heat (1:7.0.0-3) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Add allow-sqlalchemy-1.1.patch.
+
+ -- Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>  Wed, 11 Jan 2017 03:02:49 +0100
+
 heat (1:7.0.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   [ Ondřej Nový ]
diff --git a/debian/patches/allow-sqlalchemy-1.1.patch b/debian/patches/allow-sqlalchemy-1.1.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0a88f815b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/allow-sqlalchemy-1.1.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+Description: Allow SQLA 1.1
+Author: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
+Forwarded: not-needed
+Last-Update: 2017-01-11
+
+--- heat-7.0.0.orig/requirements.txt
++++ heat-7.0.0/requirements.txt
+@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ requests>=2.10.0 # Apache-2.0
+ retrying
+ Routes
+ six>=1.9.0 # MIT
+-SQLAlchemy<1.1.0,>=1.0.10 # MIT
++SQLAlchemy>=1.0.10 # MIT
+ sqlalchemy-migrate>=0.9.6 # Apache-2.0
+ stevedore>=1.16.0 # Apache-2.0
+ WebOb>=1.2.3 # MIT
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index 1cd6d3466..9b8b253d1 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@ only-run-tests-in-heat.tests.patch
 fix-requirements.txt.patch
 CVE-2016-9185_Prevent_template_validate_from_scanning_ports.patch
 remove-broken-rst.patch
+allow-sqlalchemy-1.1.patch